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Enhancing ERP Success in Apparel Industry

The apparel industry, particularly in manufacturing countries like Bangladesh, is increasingly adopting digitization through ERP systems to enhance efficiency and competitiveness. However, many ERP implementations fail due to poor user adoption and misalignment with the industry's dynamic workflows, often stemming from inadequate requirements analysis. This project aims to develop a garment-specific requirements engineering approach that incorporates stakeholder experiences to improve system relevance and support sustainable transformation in the context of Industry 4.0.

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Enhancing ERP Success in Apparel Industry

The apparel industry, particularly in manufacturing countries like Bangladesh, is increasingly adopting digitization through ERP systems to enhance efficiency and competitiveness. However, many ERP implementations fail due to poor user adoption and misalignment with the industry's dynamic workflows, often stemming from inadequate requirements analysis. This project aims to develop a garment-specific requirements engineering approach that incorporates stakeholder experiences to improve system relevance and support sustainable transformation in the context of Industry 4.0.

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Introduction:

In the recent years, the apparel industry especially in countries who are known for
their manufacturing like Bangladesh have adopted digitisation by using Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) and production systems. These tech's aimed at reducing
operational inefficiencies, resource wastage, and creating stronger market
competition over a global scale. Yet, a lot of ERP implementations in garment
factories tend to fall flat on expectations. Main challenges are: Poor User adoption –
Insufficient system tailoring- Misalignment of software capabilities with the complex
and continually changing realties of garment production workflows.

One of most important reason for the high percentage of failures in such programs
is that the RA (Requirements Analysis) process at early stage(Specification Phase)
was not performed appropriately. However, traditional RE methods can be unable to
provide specifications that capture the dynamic, buyer-driven nature of garment
industry. I also know a lot of companies forget about those informal communication
channels, the varying lead times and last-minute order changes. The consequences
of this disconnect are technically sound ERP systems with little operational
relevance for the actual end users, like a merchandiser or production planner or line
supervisor.

To address this challenge, our project is dedicated to building a garment-RE specific


approach that takes into account the user and sociotechnical context. We have
sought to overcome this problem by integrating stakeholder experiences and
factory-floor realities into the requirements, in order to improve system traceability,
flexibility and related-ness with real production practices. In the grand scheme of
Industry 4.0 this is a win as it drives up Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and
supports long-term, digitally sustainable transformation in apparel.

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